Taxpayers fund course to teach teens how to wear high heels to work

Students were taught how to wear high heels like Pixie Lott, pictured outside recording studios in London today

For girls aiming to climb the career ladder, it is one achievement they might be wiser not to put on the CV.

In what has been described as the country's 'most trivial' course, female pupils are being taught how to walk in high heels.

The six-week 'Sexy Heels in the City' course is designed, it is
claimed, to prepare them for the 'business world and their social
lives'.

Whether employers will take the same view is yet to be seen.
But South Thames College-in South-West London, is paying Chyna Whyne,
author of Mastering The Art Of Wearing High Heels, £60 an hour to pass
on her expertise to 16-year-old pupils.

Miss Whyne, a former backing singer for Elton John, claims her
life was made a misery because she was not taught how to walk in such
shoes.

She insists women should be taught the skills at an early age -
as singer Pixie Lott has clearly done - as it will be better for them
'in the long run'.

The course also involves learning how to walk on a catwalk and
shop for shoes - a skill many men might suggest comes naturally to most
women.